By JOEL HANS, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net
I recently stumbled upon what I believe to be the most perfectly delightful hobby, something the experts call “gardentrucking.” Essentially, it’s to excavation what RC planes are to aviation. The hobby’s participants buy model bobcats and dumptrucks, build them and put them to work.
It seems that some of these hobbyists have much larger visions for what their model trucks are capable of. I read an article that outlines one man’s slow-moving effort to dig out more of his unfinished basement, with the idea that some time in the distant future, he’ll fix the place up and give it a proper finish.
And like other RC hobbies, gardentrucking isn’t cheap — these machines aren’t necessarily toys for the kids to play around with. After scoping around a bit on Gardentrucking.com, I’ve seen kits that run from a few hundred dollars to a few thousand.
To give you a better idea of what Joe does, and what gardentrucking is all about, take a look at the video below. He’s got a bunch more on YouTube, so click on through to see the project as it evolves over the years.